West Yorkshire Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Ayrshire Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	50
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	41	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	2.375 %	2.512 %
Daily rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum daily rate	£160	£369
Average daily rate	£193	£381
% change on same period last year	-49.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£225	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£265	£227
% change on same period last year	+16.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.17	£14.83
Average hourly rate	£15.83	£16.08
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.50	£17.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.35	£18.09
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1726	1871
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.301 %	1.866 %
Daily rates quoted	414	308
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£334
Average daily rate	£345	£356
% change on same period last year	-3.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	124	169
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.65	£23.32
Average hourly rate	£22.81	£24.74
% change on same period last year	-7.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.96	£26.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Support Analyst Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Analyst across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Analyst across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Analyst across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Analyst within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	+8	30	£193	-10.46 %
Bradford	-7	4	-	-
Wakefield	-3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Support Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Support Analyst in their job title.

1 45 (41.67 %) Windows 2 31 (28.70 %) Active Directory 3 30 (27.78 %) Microsoft 4 26 (24.07 %) Windows XP 5 21 (19.44 %) Finance 6 20 (18.52 %) MS Office 7 16 (14.81 %) SQL 8 15 (13.89 %) MS Excel 8 15 (13.89 %) Windows 2000 9 14 (12.96 %) MS Exchange 10 13 (12.04 %) Legal 11 12 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 11 12 (11.11 %) Citrix 12 11 (10.19 %) Lotus 12 11 (10.19 %) Lotus Notes

12 11 (10.19 %) SQL Server 12 11 (10.19 %) Windows Server 2003 13 10 (9.259 %) CMS 13 10 (9.259 %) Health 13 10 (9.259 %) Law 13 10 (9.259 %) Remedy 14 9 (8.333 %) VPN 15 8 (7.407 %) Novell 15 8 (7.407 %) Microsoft Certification 15 8 (7.407 %) ITIL 15 8 (7.407 %) Billing 16 7 (6.481 %) Symantec 16 7 (6.481 %) Crystal Reports 16 7 (6.481 %) NetWare 17 6 (5.556 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Support Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (2.778 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (2.778 %) .NET 2 2 (1.852 %) ASP 2 2 (1.852 %) AJAX 2 2 (1.852 %) Application Packaging 2 2 (1.852 %) COM+ 3 1 (0.926 %) WebServices 3 1 (0.926 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 14 (12.96 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (10.19 %) Lotus Notes 3 10 (9.259 %) CMS 4 6 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (2.778 %) SharePoint 6 2 (1.852 %) Lotus Domino 7 1 (0.926 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 20 (18.52 %) MS Office 2 15 (13.89 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.778 %) MS Project 4 2 (1.852 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 12 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 2 9 (8.333 %) VPN 3 5 (4.630 %) Broadband 3 5 (4.630 %) Firewall 4 4 (3.704 %) LAN 4 4 (3.704 %) DNS 5 3 (2.778 %) VoIP 6 2 (1.852 %) WAN 6 2 (1.852 %) DHCP 6 2 (1.852 %) DEFINITY 7 1 (0.926 %) Internet 7 1 (0.926 %) MPLS 7 1 (0.926 %) OSPF 7 1 (0.926 %) BGP 7 1 (0.926 %) EIGRP 7 1 (0.926 %) SMS 7 1 (0.926 %) ISDN 7 1 (0.926 %) LDAP 7 1 (0.926 %) ATM 7 1 (0.926 %) Frame Relay
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (10.19 %) SQL Server 2 7 (6.481 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (0.926 %) ClearCase 1 1 (0.926 %) ClearQuest
General 1 21 (19.44 %) Finance 2 13 (12.04 %) Legal 3 10 (9.259 %) Health 3 10 (9.259 %) Law 4 8 (7.407 %) Billing 5 3 (2.778 %) Telecoms 6 2 (1.852 %) Government 7 1 (0.926 %) Electric 7 1 (0.926 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.556 %) Blackberry 2 5 (4.630 %) NHS 3 3 (2.778 %) Smartcard 3 3 (2.778 %) PKI 3 3 (2.778 %) PDA 4 2 (1.852 %) Video Conferencing 4 2 (1.852 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.926 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.926 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.926 %) AS400 5 1 (0.926 %) PACS 5 1 (0.926 %) Computer Science 5 1 (0.926 %) Smartphone
Operating Systems 1 45 (41.67 %) Windows 2 26 (24.07 %) Windows XP 3 15 (13.89 %) Windows 2000 4 11 (10.19 %) Windows Server 2003 5 7 (6.481 %) NetWare 6 3 (2.778 %) UNIX 6 3 (2.778 %) Linux 7 2 (1.852 %) Windows Mobile 7 2 (1.852 %) Windows Vista 8 1 (0.926 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (0.926 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.926 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (7.407 %) ITIL 2 6 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (3.704 %) Service Management 3 4 (3.704 %) Incident Management 4 3 (2.778 %) Data Migration 4 3 (2.778 %) Change Management 4 3 (2.778 %) Migration 4 3 (2.778 %) ERP 5 2 (1.852 %) Project Management 5 2 (1.852 %) Project Planning 6 1 (0.926 %) Problem Management 6 1 (0.926 %) Time Management 6 1 (0.926 %) Six Sigma 6 1 (0.926 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (0.926 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (0.926 %) Identity Management
Programming Languages 1 16 (14.81 %) SQL 2 3 (2.778 %) C# 3 2 (1.852 %) C 3 2 (1.852 %) VB 3 2 (1.852 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 8 (7.407 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (4.630 %) MCP 3 3 (2.778 %) Degree 4 2 (1.852 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 2 (1.852 %) Network+ Certification 4 2 (1.852 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (0.926 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (0.926 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (0.926 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (0.926 %) HNC 5 1 (0.926 %) MCSE 5 1 (0.926 %) MCSA 5 1 (0.926 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.926 %) SLA	System Software 1 31 (28.70 %) Active Directory 2 3 (2.778 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (0.926 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (0.926 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 5 (4.630 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 3 (2.778 %) ZENworks 3 2 (1.852 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (1.852 %) DameWare 4 1 (0.926 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.926 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 30 (27.78 %) Microsoft 2 12 (11.11 %) Citrix 3 11 (10.19 %) Lotus 4 10 (9.259 %) Remedy 5 8 (7.407 %) Novell 6 7 (6.481 %) Symantec 7 3 (2.778 %) IBM 7 3 (2.778 %) HP 7 3 (2.778 %) Dell 7 3 (2.778 %) Mitel 8 2 (1.852 %) Altiris 8 2 (1.852 %) Avaya 8 2 (1.852 %) Cisco 9 1 (0.926 %) Oracle 9 1 (0.926 %) Sun 9 1 (0.926 %) VMware 9 1 (0.926 %) StorageTek 9 1 (0.926 %) VERITAS 9 1 (0.926 %) Apple 9 1 (0.926 %) CheckPoint